My Third Life Is in the Future World! After Being Betrayed and Losing His Memory, the Former Hero Begins Sweet School Days in a World with a 1:50 Male-to-Female Ratio - 34

Chapter 34: Reira’s POV – Tragedy

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“So, how is my medical check going?”

“Uh, at the moment, there don’t seem to be any abnormalities… Yeah.”

She just looked away, didn’t she?

I’m Reira… Reira, the Angel of Science. A woman created by the Reira Project. Today, I came to the research facility for a medical checkup. But… Maybe it’s just my imagination, but the researchers’ behavior seems very strange.

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The project had ended in failure, and I was left to sleep in cold storage. However, once it was discovered that a healthy male existed, I was awakened once more.

That healthy man—Ceres-san—was a wonderful person. It was only for a single day, but I experienced the happiest day of my life as a woman.

Then, I was granted a partner contract and officially received my human rights. Everything was going smoothly. I could finally have an independent life, away from the research facility. I started living in an apartment and my future finally began to show a glimmer of hope. 

Or at least… That was how it was supposed to be. Unfortunately…

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Three days after the medical check. Recently, I suddenly started feeling sluggish. When I took my temperature, it was 39°C… Maybe I caught a cold.

Thinking that, I contacted the research facility, and they delivered some medicine for me. I took it that day and quietly went to sleep.

Two days later…

“Geh… Cough… Uughhhh…”

It wasn’t just the fever anymore—I started coughing too. And maybe it was just in my head, but I felt like my body was losing strength. When I took my temperature again, it had risen above 40°C. When I contacted the research facility, a researcher came to my home. She gave me an injection, and left me with additional medication.

A few days later…

I could barely eat and I felt like my hair had started to fall out. I felt like my muscle strength was rapidly declining. Day by day, my body seemed to be getting worse.

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Not even a week had passed since the medical check, and I ended up having to return to the research facility. Now, I was placed in a private room in the facility, hooked up to an IV, with a tube inserted through my nose and a catheter in my lower body.

Yes, I had become completely bedridden, unable to move at all.

“Ufufu, ahahaha… I am Reira… The ultimate beauty, created from the genes of past beauties and beautiful girls. If the man is normal, he’ll fall head over heels for me the moment he sees me… And yet, this is what I’ve become… Ahahaha… No, no, this isn’t who I am—”

My body had withered away like that of an old woman. My ribs were sticking out, and it was obvious that my once-proud breasts and butt had shriveled up.

Even lying down, my tailbone rubbed against the mattress and hurt. My once-beautiful black hair had turned into gray like that of an old woman.

“This isn’t me… This isn’t meeeeeee—”

Ahahaha… I couldn’t even talk anymore and even when I did, my voice came out horribly hoarse and raspy, like that of an old woman’s. This… This couldn’t possibly be my voice… This couldn’t possibly be me…

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I heard the researchers talking…

“‘Reira Project: Angel of Science’… That project was a failure. That’s why she was put into cold-sleep, huh?”

No… I was a failure…?

“I mean, really—’Let’s create a woman loved by men.’ What a stupid idea. There’s no way that kind of project was going to work from the beginning.”

No…

“‘The ultimate beauty, created from the DNA of many beautiful women and girls stored by the government’—think about it, that’s basically a chimera. You can’t just make something like that and it turns out, all they had were failed prototypes in storage.”

A failure from the start… I was a failure…

“A chimera… Yeah, that’s exactly it. If the project had shown any sign of success, they would’ve done some practical testing on the get go. I mean, just look at her. She’s a defective product from the start. She didn’t have an eye and a leg. She was never a proper specimen from the beginning.”

…I see…

“The fused DNA went out of control and now she looks like an old woman. How can this thing be considered a beauty? Honestly, I’m better looking than her now.”

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“Seriously, she looks like a grandma… But I guess that can’t be helped. She is a failure after all. So what do we do with this garbage?”

“Even like this, she still has human rights and a partner contract. Technically, she belongs to that guy now. They say he’ll decide whether or not to continue the partner contract. If he says no… They’ll dispose of her.”

No… no… I’m going to be disposed of…? More importantly…

“If she were still in her old form, maybe…But who’s going to want a woman that looks like a grandma? So, yeah, her disposal is pretty much a done deal. It can’t be helped. She is a failure after all.”

“Exactly.”

I don’t want to be discarded… I don’t want to die… But more than that, I don’t want Ceres-san to see me like this… I don’t want him to meet in this ugly, pitiful form…

I tried to bite down on my tongue to end it all, but I couldn’t even muster the strength to do that.

“Kill me.”

Please… Don’t let Ceres-san see me like this… Don’t let him see me looking like an old woman…

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